"Beep beep beep..."
A shrill alarm suddenly rang out across the Burning Legion's bridge. A scientific exploration vessel from who knew how many years ago appeared on the massive screen. Behind it was an enormous yellow planet. Compared to that gigantic yellow planet, the suddenly appearing exploration vessel was so tiny it could practically be ignored.
That planet was Jupiter, one of the largest bodies in the Solar System. Yet on a planet countless times larger than Earth, a massive crater had suddenly appeared—a crater large enough to swallow the entire Earth whole.
The instant the crater appeared, it seemed to spew out countless clouds of white smoke. The white substance was dense and endless, forming what looked like a nebula surrounding the planet. But when the image was magnified, it became clear that the smoke-like, nebula-like mass was actually made up of individual white entities of varying sizes and shapes. The fog existed only because there were so many of those white things—so many it was terrifying—that against the backdrop of the giant planet, they looked like tiny particles and formed a mist outside Jupiter.
Everyone on the Burning Legion's bridge who witnessed that scene could not help but reveal expressions of shock, astonishment, fear, and grimness. It was not just them; everyone, including the Burning Legion's members, wore the same expressions after seeing it.
At that moment, on Earth and aboard the Ptolemy II, countless humans with Innovator potential, humans who had already evolved into ordinary Innovators, and even Pure Innovators like Setsuna suddenly clutched their heads and fell to their knees in agony, screaming hoarsely.
Xiao Ran was no exception. Even as a Participant, even with his unique and lofty status in this world, he could only clutch his head and collapse over the table. All he